they literally have a guy who does a daily presser about how awesome it is to do war crimes
06.03.2026 04:08
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they literally have a guy who does a daily presser about how awesome it is to do war crimes
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
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The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.
Chris Fleming "revels in unearthing the weirdness of the everyday." Read Rachel Syme's review of his new standup special. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...
Scoop: U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joked to embassy staff about procreating while sheltering in place on Tuesday in a memo one U.S. official described as “awkward” and “odd.”
I am an idea man, dog!
#standup #comedy #funny #standupcomedy #jokes
The stand up comedy subreddit is so good because a lot of times a guy will be like “I it can’t possibly be my material”
Hey people, stop using Claude to code or write your next paper for you. Be more imaginative. Here is what Claude did when I asked it to turn one of my recent columns into a standup comedy routine. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
“…Democracy Summer, a nationwide program to educate citizens and protect our elections in the coming year…”
Flow chart showing OpenAI, Google Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Perplexity, ProRate.ai, IBM, Mistral, Anthropic, Nvidia, in that order with the biggest deals, with OpenAI having 21 deals, Google 17, Meta 8, Microsoft 4, Amazon 3.
Check out this interactive website by Nana Mgbechikwere, showing BigTech and "AI" companies' media capture.
No wonder the public is getting misinformed.
They say it is inspired by @surveillancewatch.bsky.social, which ❤️
nananwachukwu.github.io
One of the questions ninth-graders were reportedly given asked how much a date with a "220lb" girl would cost if a date with a "typical girl that weighs 120lbs will cost you $55."
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they really broke that Marine man’s arm for protesting in Senate chambers
and a sitting Congressman helped to do it
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one of the small indignities I resent about living in this timeline is the Trump administration slowly turning me into a 10th amendment guy, I should be able to categorically hate "states' rights" arguments in peace!
Gender as a “bundle of sticks” bhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11577-026-01054-z?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article
"Others have lost confidence 'because higher education said they were going to be committed to racial justice in 2020,' Baker said, 'and they walked that back faster than the speed walkers in the Olympics.'"
And I was worried I didn't give them anything useful! 🧵
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GOOD.
Transphobia is unpopular among people with basic morals, common decency, social graces, and a sense of civic responsibility.
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There is a lot of spying on faculty already, e.g. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2023...
Part 3.
Part 2, with more from the veteran. Please note that security is perp walking the Marine out of the hearing WITH HIS BROKEN ARM TWISTED BEHIND HIS BACK.
Different angle, showing the lead-up:
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
Horrific, violent murders of innocent people that will not improve life for anyone. Being Iranian is neither a choice nor a crime. Live and let live. Please.
“He’s gonna have to say it out loud eventually, and it feels like he could take it in some kind of insane direction like HOOR-muzz or maybe horm-SUH,” said Arkansas resident Janet Flitchen
for a symposium on our free speech crisis, wrote a thing. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-peo...
It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).
Thank you for reading!! I admire your work so much — it’s lovely to be in touch.
I don't understand whether Minnesota has the ability to sue the federal government for reimbursement of these expenses, but I hope it does.
